Salt Lake City police officers tackled a man, shocked him with a Taser and held him at gunpoint in December 2019 after accusing him of jaywalking, body camera footage released Wednesday shows.
In this screenshot of police body camera footage, Tarik Mason stands in an alley seconds before he is tackled to the ground by Salt Lake City police on Dec. 15, 2019. An officer had stopped Mason for jaywalking, police said, and Mason ran from the officer, who then called for backup before the arrest.
The footage released Wednesday shows that officer getting out of his patrol car, approaching Mason and asking him why he did not wait for a crosswalk signal before crossing the street. The officer then asked if Mason had dealt with the police before, so that the officer could “look [him] up in the system.” Mason replied that he had.
The chase continued down to 500 East, and into an alley between 500 East and South Park Street before Mason stops, appearing out of breath and hunched over. Mason groans in pain as police ask for his name; he at first replies that he does not know it, then says “John Doe” before he tells them he already told the initial officer his name, the footage shows.
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